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Somadina Audiobook

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Release Date: April 15, 2025
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Read By: Akwaeke Emezi, Nene Nwoko Publisher: Listening Library Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798217015122

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

25

Longest Chapter Length:

44:30 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

23:28 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

8

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Publisher Description

From the National Book Award finalist and author of Pet comes a novel set in a magical West African world, about a teen girl who must save her missing twin while learning to navigate her own terrifying new powers.

Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each other's sentences and make each other whole. When the twins come of age, their magical gifts begin to develop, but while Jayaike's powers enchant, Somadina's cause fear to ripple through her town.

Always an outsider, Somadina now faces blatant--and dangerous--hostility. And things go from bad to worse when her brother—the one person she trusted—vanishes. Somadina knows that no matter the dangers, she must track him down. Even if it means entering the Sacred Forest.  Even if it means grueling, otherworldly travel she may not survive.  Even if it means finding the hidden places where those closest to the spirit world don't dare to go. Does Somadina have the strength --within both her body and her soul -- for the trying journey ahead?

National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi masterfully weaves a tale of family, identity, and the power of the past, in a world where the extraordinary is ordinary.

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"Magic is packed into every corner of this lush if unevenly developed tale."

— Kirkus Reviews

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  • Magic is packed into every corner.

    — Kirkus Reviews

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About Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Selected as 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.